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Agreement on a deal to create a unitary patent court has overshadowed court developments elsewhere in Europe. Paul Madill explains the changes among national courts

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Rodney D Ryder and Ashwin Madhavan explain what the Indian Premier League’s IP management strategies can teach rights holders looking to launch events in India

The world's leading trade mark firms, recommended and ranked

The US Supreme Court recently issued a decision in Already v Nike which may have a large impact on how trade mark owners handle enforcing their proprietary rights and how those accused of trade mark infringement defend themselves.

The Patent Law implemented on January 1 2013 has introduced a final notice procedure for patent applications. This new procedure limits the amendment of claims with a view to expediting examination of applications.

The Swiss Federal Patent Court recently ordered for the first time a description of an allegedly patent-infringing method at the premises of an alleged infringer. Although within the framework of provisional measures, which usually require the requesting party to show that the infringement will cause damaging effects that can not be easily repaired, a description can be ordered by the court without this prerequisite. The requesting party needs only to make credible that a claim it is entitled to is infringed.

In Singapore, a patent application can claim either a single invention or a group of inventions that are linked to form a single inventive concept. This unity of invention convention is also present in many other jurisdictions.